John Gibson (flourished in London 1750 to his death in 1792) was an English cartographer, geographer, draughtsman and engraver."Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers" revised edition, 2003, Early World Press, Riverside, CT
Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and skilled engraver,Geographicus, John Gibson spent most of his life in prison because of several debts, however, produced thousands of maps and its best-known work in 1758 was called the pocket atlas Atlas Minimus. A Correct Map of the Island of Jamaica by John Gibson He worked also for the Gentleman's MagazineThe Gentleman's magazine, Volume 165 for which engraved different decorative maps. He also published his own work in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, The Universal Museum and The Universal Traveller.
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University of Pittsburgh, Atlas Minimus